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Graduate Trainee - Corporate and Institutional Banking
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Why Corporate & Institutional Banking?
Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is the strategic partner for UK and international corporates and institutions.
Through the course of the programme, graduates will build core skills to support them in managing risk, achieving financial goals, and accessing global markets, financing solutions, risk management tools and transaction banking services.
Your graduate journey
As a CIB Graduate, we’ll give the best possible start to your career by equipping you with experience across our Customer Coverage, Product, and Sustainable Finance teams, providing broad experience, collaboration and customer insight and expertise.
Through in-depth training and working with leading industry experts you will develop unrivalled knowledge and skills.
Over the course of this two-year programme with four rotations, you can expect to:
- Understand the financing, liquidity and risk management requirements of large, complex clients across sectors and align tailored banking and capital solutions
- Analyse financial statements, cash flows, leverage, liquidity and credit metrics to assess funding needs, capital structures and credit risk
- Support credit underwriting, transaction structuring, pricing, covenant analysis and risk-adjusted return evaluation
- Develop product expertise across corporate lending, Debt Capital Markets, private financing, transaction banking, working capital and sustainable finance solutions
- Collaborate with Coverage, Risk, Credit, Legal and Product teams to originate, structure and execute client transactions while strengthening stakeholder management and communication skills
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How you’ll benefit
We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £60,000. And on top of your salary, you’ll have access to our flexible benefits package.
You can also expect to:
- Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
- Enrich your learning with access to world-leading research and insights
- Test, learn, and fail in a safe and inclusive environment
- Accelerate your financial and analytical capability
- Develop your commercial awareness as well as market and product knowledge
- Build a foundation of sought-after skills to build your career on
- Expand your global professional network
- Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
- Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation
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Entry requirements
To be eligible for our CIB graduate programme, you’ll need:
- To have, or be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
- A deep sense of curiosity
- Analytical skills
- To enjoy collaborating with others and working as part of a team
- A proactive and resourceful approach to your work
- To be a keen problem solver
- Good attention to detail
Ready to apply?
The application window for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications to fill our cohort. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out!
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